"What are sometimes called superbugs — microbes resistant to every available drug — are not merely the stuff of nightmares.

A gut toxin that’s been linked to colorectal cancers for more than two decades may be contributing to the sharp rise of the ...

Auto-brewery syndrome produces symptoms of intoxication when ethanol produced by dysregulated gut microbiota exceeds the capacity of the liver to metabolize it.

Antibiotic resistance is a serious threat to public health. When antibiotics don't work, we risk not being able to treat many types of infections and people who would previously have been cured, can ...

Samples encompassed eight bacteria species important to public health, including Streptococcus pneumoniae, Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, and Klebsiella pneumoniae. They found that while ...

EAGLE-1 trial data shows gepotidacin’s potential in treating gonorrhoea, for which no new antibiotics have been approved ...